Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
> You think Mutt takes a long time loading a big mailbox? Try PINE.
> Looking at the better part of half an hour to load a 4MB mailbox in PINE.
Something is terribly wrong with your setup then. Currently my
debian-devel-changes mbox has approximately 6000 messages, (approximately
31MBs on disk) and pine loads it in about 15 seconds. Pine mmaps a large
mailbox so you most likely don't have enough RAM and/or swap.
Jaldhar H. Vyas <email@example.com>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/